MedSuite Product Brochure

• How does MedSuite compare to traditional desktop software products?
• What is the price of MedSuite?
• What is the "Subscription Model"?
• Why should you consider the "Subscription Model"?
• Can I buy the individual components of MedSuite separately?
• What type of medical billing organizations should use MedSuite?

General Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Technology Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

MedSuite takes your company well beyond desktop-constrained products in features and accessibility.

First, MedSuite has unmatched features and functionality within every component. For anesthesia billing, MedSuite offers ASA cross-walk coding, discontinuous time and unit billing, minute, unit, and fee maximums and many other features.

Secondly, MedSuite is available anywhere and at anytime via the Web, for as many users as you choose without additional licensing costs, helping your practice to make informed decisions.

Finally, MedSuite uses Web as a secure, encrypted data transport layer between our hosting site and your desktop. MedSuite is different from traditional client-server technology in that was designed to be a "thin client" using data compression and data caching technology.
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MedSuite is licensed on a subscription model on a transaction fee basis.  You pay for only what you use.

Q. Why should you have to pay a for a full "per-seat" license fee so that one of your physicians can access the system three days a month or so that an employee working from home fifteen hours a week can do their job?
 

A. You shouldn't have to...

MedSuite is priced on a per-case (anesthesia) or per-encounter (front-office) basis with additional transaction fees for electronic claims, electronic statements, electronic remittance, document imaging, and other transactions.  Per-case and per-encounter transaction fees vary based on transaction volume and, for large practices, the per-transaction fee can be as low as $.25/case and $.10/encounter respectively. Electronic claims and electronic statement pricing is extremely competitive with other available options.
 

For more information about pricing, please contact our Sales Department at sales@medsuite.net.
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The subscription model is "marketing-speak" for selling software on a transactional basis.  This concept goes back to the earliest days of the computer age when hardware was "big iron" (expensive), required climate controlled data centers (expensive), and needed lots of care and feeding by the data center staff (expensive).  Many companies simply couldn't afford all of that infrastructure, but they needed computing power and were willing to pay for it.  Many of the companies with the computing power were looking for ways to help amortize the enormous costs of that power.  The "computer time-sharing service" was born at the intersection of those two needs.  Companies without computers literally bought time on someone else's computer.

For the past twenty-five years the computer time-sharing service has been fighting an uphill battle against smaller, faster, and less expensive hardware.  Today, the computer time-share has been re-born as the Application Service Provider or ASP.  This re-birth has been driven by application software that has become extremely complex and more difficult to develop and deploy.  The ASP sells their software, server, and network infrastructure on a transaction fee basis.

The definition of a "transaction" varies depending on the service being sold.  For example, the "transaction" for companies that sell on-line backup and storage is defined in terms of the volume of data stored by a customer usually in MB (mega-bytes or million characters), or GB (giga-bytes or billion characters) per month.  The "transaction" for companies that sell internet access, called Internet Service Providers or ISP's, is defined in terms of "bandwidth" or how many Kbs (Kilo-bits or thousand-bits per second) or Mbs (mega-bits or million-bits per-second) are supported by the circuit purchased from the ISP.

MedSuite's "transactions" are defined in terms that are specific to medical practice management and medical billing.  "Transactions" include anesthesia cases, non-anesthesia encounters, electronic claims, electronic statements, electronic remittance advices, and document images.
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Can I buy the individual components MedSuite separately?

The only "optional" components in MedSuite are the external electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions such as electronic claims, electronic statements, electronic remittance, and document imaging.  You may take advantage of the EDI transactions at your discretion and depending on the needs of your billing organization.  Other EDI interfaces such as hospital demographic downloads tend to be "customized" for each facility and MedSuite can develop these interfaces for you on a time-and-expenses basis.  All of the other features and components of MedSuite are included in the transaction fee and are available to you at no additional charge.
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MedSuite was designed with the billing service and large practice in mind.  However, it works just as well in smaller practices.
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